Commonwealth v. Shillingford’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently July 1995 · most notably 402 Pa. Super. 438 - Commonwealth v. Canning (1991), 390 Pa. Super. 493 - Commonwealth v. Williams (1990)
31 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Kirby v. Illinois · Moore v. United States · Commonwealth v. Campana · State v. Kaluna · Commonwealth v. Richman
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Section 5505] is carefully drawn so as not to punish all forms of drunkenness but only drunkenness... to such a degree as to endanger the person himself or other persons or property or annoy persons in the vicinity. . .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he defendant may be arrested without a warrant by a police officer for a summary offense, but only when (i) such arrest is necessary in the judgment of the officer, and (ii) the officer is in uniform or displays a badge or other sign of authority, and (iii) such arrest is authorized by law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.